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Robert M WeinriebDepartment of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USALiver Transpl 13:S79-82. 2007

..Transplant teams should encourage smoking cessation treatments.Marijuana use in liver transplant recipients is not uncommon, and apart from the risk of developing aspergillosis, additional health risks have not yet been identified...

..Because there is an increased risk of bleeding in HCV-infected patients who have developed cirrhosis and either portal hypertension or hepatic failure or both, we critically reviewed the literature on SSRI-associated bleeding...

An evaluation of anabolic-androgenic steroid abusers over a period of 1 year: seven case studies

..The results provide the first long-term, prospective evaluation of the effects of AASs, when these drugs are administered in a naturalistic pattern of abuse...

A matched comparison study of medical and psychiatric complications and anesthesia and analgesia requirements in methadone-maintained liver transplant recipients

Robert M WeinriebDepartment of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PALiver Transpl 10:97-106. 2004

..Posttransplant, 20% of patients receiving MMT used alcohol or illicit drugs. Data do not support withholding the provision of liver transplantation to patients receiving MMT, but larger, well-controlled studies are warranted...